Joseph McCann has been charged with 37 offences, include 10 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of rape, and one count of rape of a child.
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The trial of Joseph McCann, charged with 37 charges, including rape and kidnapping, has continued at the Old Bailey for a second day.
The charges include 10 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of rape, and one count of rape of a child.
The alleged incidents took place between 20 April and 8 May 2019.
The 11 victims included a 71-year-old woman and a 13-year-old child.
The jury heard how Mr McCann allegedly tied up a mother and raped her children in front of her. Mr McCann forcibly denies all charges against him.
Lead Prosecutor John Price QC told jurors that when Mr McCann was eventually captured, he allegedly told the arresting detective: “if you had caught me after the first two, the rest of this wouldn’t have happened.”
Jurors were also shown CCTV footage of a 17-year-old girl jumping out of a first-floor bedroom window allegedly in an attempt to escape from Mr McCann,
They also listened to a recording of the 999 call that she made.
The days proceedings finished with further CCTV footage of another alleged victim in Watford.
The woman claims that Mr McCann held her at knife-point after a night out, dragged her back to her home and raped her in her own bedroom.
The case continues.
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The Trial of Joseph McCann continued at the Old Bailey today to a packed out public gallery.
Mr McCann has been indicted on 37 offences in what has been described as a “depraved two week crime spree”. The charged include 10 counts of Kidnapping, 7 counts of rape, and one count of rape of a child.
The alleged incidents took place between the 20th of April and the 8th of May this year. The victims, 11 in total, included a 71 year old woman and a 13 year old child.
The jury today heard how Mr McCann allegedly tied up a mother and raped her children in front of her. Mr McCann forcibly denies all charges against him.
Lead Prosecutor John Price QC told the jurors that when Mr McCann was eventually captured, he told the arresting detective “if you had of caught me after the first two, the rest of this wouldn’t have happened”.
Later in the afternoon, jurors were shown CCTV of a 17 year old girl jumping out of a first floor bedroom window allegedly to escape Mr McCann, as well as the 999 call that she made.
The days proceedings finished with further CCTV of another alleged victim in Watford. The woman claims that Mr McCann held her at knife-point after a night out, dragged her back to her home and raped her in her own bedroom.
Court will resume tomorrow with said alleged victim being cross-examined by the defence attorneys.
The trial of Joseph McCann, charged with 37 charges, including rape and kidnapping, has continued at the Old Bailey for a second day.
The charges include 10 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of rape, and one count of rape of a child.
The alleged incidents took place between 20 April and 8 May 2019.
The 11 victims included a 71-year-old woman and a 13-year-old child.
The jury heard how Mr McCann allegedly tied up a mother and raped her children in front of her. Mr McCann forcibly denies all charges against him.
Lead Prosecutor John Price QC told jurors that when Mr McCann was eventually captured, he allegedly told the arresting detective: “if you had caught me after the first two, the rest of this wouldn’t have happened.”
Jurors were also shown CCTV footage of a 17-year-old girl jumping out of a first-floor bedroom window allegedly in an attempt to escape from Mr McCann,
They also listened to a recording of the 999 call that she made.
The days proceedings finished with further CCTV footage of another alleged victim in Watford.
The woman claims that Mr McCann held her at knife-point after a night out, dragged her back to her home and raped her in her own bedroom.
